I used the factory settings (.039 I believe) and liked the look of the crush. My efficiency has always been around 72%. Well, I'm always hearing "crush till you're scared", so today I tightened it up a bit. What's yours set at?
Factory default and 80%+ on every batch.
.33 for regular grains & .20 for wheat
Same here....
Thanks- I went with .035 today. I had more trouble with my sparge- it never really stuck, but clogged up a bit and I had more bits of grain come through even with vorlaufing.
I have a false bottom in an Igloo 10 gallon cooler. It was more of a pain to sparge today than ever before. I'm not sure I like it a bit finer!
I have a false bottom in an Igloo 10 gallon cooler. It was more of a pain to sparge today than ever before. I'm not sure I like it a bit finer!
Thanks- I went with .035 today. I had more trouble with my sparge- it never really stuck, but clogged up a bit and I had more bits of grain come through even with vorlaufing.
I have a false bottom in an Igloo 10 gallon cooler. It was more of a pain to sparge today than ever before. I'm not sure I like it a bit finer!
That's why I never messed with it. I get mid-to-high 70's for efficiency at factory settings. At the silly low prices I pay for grain (50 cents/lb), it's simply not worth slow/stuck sparges, husks in the runnings, etc., for a couple extra gravity points.
Hard water hurts efficiency, too.
Don't forget to add a .0 before your specs BobcatBrew unless your mashing right out of the sack as .33 is rather wide unless your cracking peanuts.
Slight corections needed that's all.
I never pay much attention to high efficiency claims. They too often resemble fish stories and you know how those go.
Beep, beep, beep. Broad sweeping generalizations coming through. What would consider to be "high" efficiency?
In my case these numbers are solid for the last 20+ batches.
Its usually the guy who responds like this who is the one telling tall tales...my two cents
Beep, beep, beep. Broad sweeping generalizations coming through. What would consider to be "high" efficiency?
In my case these numbers are solid for the last 20+ batches.
Efficiency numbers reported by others are meaningless to me. Same for the fish stories. The reported numbers may be valid, but the information is of extremely limited value to me as a home brewer and fisherman. My efficiency is usually fairly low and I'm not at all ashamed of it. My beer, however, is usually pretty good. No one ever asks about my efficiency when they drink the beer. IMO, there are two main things that influence the efficiency numbers in a big way. The fineness of the crush and the OG of the wort. There are some other variables, of course, but those are the biggies. The system design is important, but for the same system the crush and the gravity rule. You can crush finer and finer until you are scared and beyond. You will eventually hit the wall and have a stuck mash, a partially stuck mash or sometimes an intermittently stuck mash. Any of those can be a lot of fun. The gravity factor is trickier. I can get into the 80's for a low gravity beers, but sometimes drop down into the 60's for very high gravity brews. Took me awhile to get dialed in to the variations due to the wort gravity. IOW, my efficiency from batch to batch can be very different depending on what I am brewing. There are too many variables with different systems, different degrees of crush and different beer styles for the reported efficiency numbers to be of any value to me.
That's fine if other peoples numbers are meaningless to you. The OP asked for these numbers, and that's what we gave her. Your post was off topic.
Its usually the guy who responds like this who is the one telling tall tales...my two cents
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